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2009 F1 World Champion --- Jenson Button

昨天f1 巴西戰很好看.. 一路上就看 Button , 往前超車, 雖然只拿到第五但也夠他拿到總冠軍

Button wins World Championship

Eurosport - Sun, 18 Oct 19:38:00 2009

Briton Jenson Button won the Formula One World Championship after finishing fifth in a scrappy race at Interlagos in Brazil won by Mark Webber.

Brawn GP Formula One driver Jenson Button of Britain celebrates becoming the 2009 Formula One World Champion at Interlagos - 0

Robert Kubica of BMW and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton also finished on the podium, the latter having started down in 17th.

The result saw Brawn claim the constructors' title, becoming the only team to take the crown in their first full season.

Title rival and Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello's fate was sealed after suffering a late puncture while being passed by Button's English compatriot Hamilton: he pitted and came home in eighth for a solitary point.

Button, who started 14th after a wet, disastrous qualifying session on Saturday, was on course to win the title regardless.

He resumed after his final pitstop in front of Heikki Kovalainen but was passed by the McLaren soon after; that would have seen him finish with 10 points more than Barrichello - the Brazilian was third - but tellingly Button has more race wins to his name.

However first pole sitter Barrichello was passed by Hamilton then the previous world champion's team-mate Kovalainen came in for a further stop to promote Button to sixth.

News of the puncture was relayed to Barrichello with nine laps remaining - and the pitstop scuppered any chance he had of a title victory in 2009 while Sebastian Vettel's fourth spot was not enough to keep him in the hunt either.

On a hot and humid afternoon Barrichello got away well followed by Webber while behind them chaos reigned: Force India's Adrian Sutil, Toyota's Jarno Trulli and Renault's Fernando Alonso all crashed out in a series of incidents.

Trulli and Sutil - who had been third on the grid - argued on the run-off area with the Italian the more furious despite the German seeming to have done nothing wrong in holding his racing line as the veteran tried to come past on the outside.

The safety car was deployed for four laps while Kovalainen, who had spun following contact with Vettel, left the pits at the end of lap one with the fuel hose attached - it sprayed fuel all over the following Ferrari of Kimi Raikonnen, who had suffered a broken front wing in an earlier coming together with Sutil, and the Prancing Horse car briefly caught fire.

The incident is the subject of a stewards' inquiry.

When racing resumed Button went on the charge, overtaking Renault's Romain Grosjean, Kazuki Nakajima of Williams and debutant Kamui Kobayashi of Toyota while Kubica moved past Nico Rosberg for third.

Barrichello set a series of fastest laps at the front and looked comfortable until the first round of stops. He had to come in early and rejoined in traffic, losing as much time on each lap as Button had while trying to get past Kobayashi, and Vettel rubbed salt in by passing him for eighth with Hamilton then immediately closing too.

Webber came out best, managing to resume in the lead ahead even of Button - who had yet to stop - while Barrichello saw Kubica pit from third and come back out ahead of him.

Rosberg retired with an engine issue while a few laps later his Williams colleague Nakajima crashed spectacularly after touching Kobayashi's rear wheels.

Nick Heidfeld then literally ran out of gas to end his participation and reduce the field to 14.

Webber spent the remainder of the race alone at the front, while all eyes focused on the battles behind him. Button was 14 seconds behind Barrichello with a third of the race to go, while heavy clouds rolled in, threatening rain which never materialised.

Barrichello pitted, his final planned stop, and was ahead of seventh-placed Hamilton while Button in fourth led Vettel with both drivers still to come in.

Button and his mechanics executed a smooth, clean pitstop to calm the nerves before his reemergence in front of Kovalainen and the late drama which ensued.

Raikkonen was sixth in his penultimate race for Ferrari, with Sebastien Buemi and Barrichello also in the top eight.

Kovalainen was ninth while the impressive Kobayashi passed a sleeping Giancarlo Fisichella in the other Ferrari for 10th, with Vitantonio Liuzzi of Force India, Grosjean and Toro Rosso's Jaime Alguersuari completing the order.

Jonathan Symcox / Eurosport

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